president george w. bush on youtube this morning, talking with stanford's hoover institution. it was uploaded yesterday, but just has 22,000 views. mr. bush says he is staying out of the press intentionally. >> eight years was awesome and, you know, i was famous and i was powerful and -- but i have no desire for fame and power anymore. >> president bush says he supports the current president and would no matter who was president, but he says he also supports mitt romney and hopes he does well, but says romney can do with well without me, in his words. i'll make sure to link that to our nbc facebook page as well so you can look at the interview. >> cool, check it out. >>> coming up, new warnings of trouble for the economy, if congress does not act soon. details next in a live report from washington. >>> well, dire warnings the economy could go into a free fall if the bush-era tax cuts are not extended. tracie potts joins us now. >> congress needs to act. before the end of the year, those tax cuts go away. democrats and the president want to hold on to them for the middle class.